Let's say we fire Doug after this year. Who would honestly come to coach here? Honestly? That sends the message that you get one year to turn things around and if not you're out of here. If you fire Doug now then you better get ready for Fischer. No one would come here. And people are forgetting that the team chip took over was stacked with talent. They had the #1 OL in the league that stayed completely healthy, the top rushing attack with shady, and DJax and Maclin. His system helped a lot but the players were a huge part of it. We saw that once he started jettisoning talent and the offense sputtered. I'm not saying Doug is great, but comparatively he's down to his 4th string RT, 3rd string RG, 3rd string LG, 1 RB out of 4 healthy, the worst WR corps in the league, and now an injured longsnapper, plus a rookie QB. You say the eagles should be 7-6 right now. If you said that in the off-season you would've been laughed out of the thread. Doug has fucked up sometimes yes. But this roster has been decimated with injuries in a year where they shouldn't even have been competing. If next year there's no improvement then fine get rid of Doug. But to be so reactionary is just pure foolishness.
And the OL this year isn't a disaster? This roster has far more injuries than last year. It's ridiculous to say that the talent is better this year anywhere but QB and OL when it was 100% healthy, which it hasn't been since week 4. You honestly sound like the negative-Kas, just going off of stats without context and not even paying attention to what's actually happening
You make good points Hindl, but I can't help but feel like Doug Pederson has flaws that he won't be able to overcome. I understand he will be back next season, but I feel the Eagles are going to be a mediocre team as long as he is coach. No one is hiring Jeff Fischer.
The very least you expect from a coach is for him not to cost you games you should win. Expecting a coach to win you games is what separates consistently good teams from bad teams.
I think Chip Kelly did not lose you games, and there were some games that he definitely won for the team in 2013. I think he didn't adjust and was taken down by some of his decisions as GM, but as a game manager, he knew what he was doing. He had a legitimate system/ideas in place to avoid this from happening.
I am not endorsing Chip and what he has done since 2013, but I feel like Pederson is being graded on a different curve. You can say, but he is just trying to fix Kelly's mistakes as a GM, but I don't buy that entirely. The talent on this team put them in a position to win games that were squandered by poor game management.
The surprise of this season was Carson Wentz being able to make something out of this all. A lot of the big plays that changed games were not Doug Pederson's call, but Carson changing the play at the line or scrambling on broken plays. I am not inspired by Pederson at all.
I gave Pederson a chance. I don't feel these last 10 games are acceptable. I also have a problem with his lack of accountability or learning from his mistakes. He seems to take the wrong lesson from his failures every step of the way so far.
We'll see. I have to live with at least another season of this. This is my expectation. I hope he turns it around next season after an offseason of watching film and hopefully more options on offense to exploit.
